この人も新型インフルの犠牲者

河出書房の世界文学全集でメアリー･マッカシーの巻が出たので、手にとってみたら
1918年のインフルエンザ大流行で両親を失い、その後不幸な環境で育ったことが
書いてあった。日本語のウィキには記載がないが、
英語版ウィキ
McCarthy was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died in the great flu epidemic of 1918. She and her brothers, Kevin, Preston, and Sheridan were raised in very unhappy circumstances by her Catholic father's parents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the direct care of an uncle and aunt she remembered for harsh treatment and abuse.